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Alastair Galbraith
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Alastair Galbraith is a musician from Dunedin, New Zealand.
Galbraith’s first band was The Rip, which he formed with Robbie Muir, and Mathew Ransome and later Jeff Harford (of Bored Games). They released two EPs on the Flying Nun label. Later he formed Plagal Grind, with Robbie Muir and David Mitchell (of Goblin Mix and The 3Ds) and Peter Jefferies of This Kind Of Punishmnent and Nocturnal Projections.
Galbraith’s solo career has included numerous early cassettes and 7”s on Bruce Russell’s Xpressway label, as well as albums on labels such as Siltbreeze, Emperor Jones, Time Lag Feel Good All Over and Table Of The Elements. He has also recorded ten albums with Bruce Russell under the name A Handful of Dust. In 1999 he began a collaboration with Matt De Gennaro, where the two toured New Zealand Public Art Galleries converting them into giant soundboxes by stroking tensioned wires fixed to the buildings’ structural supports.
In 2002 he designed and built a glass-tube fire organ, during an arts residency in Wanganui.
In 2006, he released “Waves and Particles” a collaboration with his partner Maxine Funke (The Snares) and Mike Dooley (The Enemy, Toy Love) as The Hundred Dollar Band. There was also the release of Volume 2 of “Long Wires In Dark Museums”, and the reissue of his early albums “Morse/Gaudylight” and “Talisman” by U.S. label Table Of The Elements.
Later that year he was awarded an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award and released “Belsayer Time” a collaboration with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
Galbraith’s first band was The Rip, which he formed with Robbie Muir, and Mathew Ransome and later Jeff Harford (of Bored Games). They released two EPs on the Flying Nun label. Later he formed Plagal Grind, with Robbie Muir and David Mitchell (of Goblin Mix and The 3Ds) and Peter Jefferies of This Kind Of Punishmnent and Nocturnal Projections.
Galbraith’s solo career has included numerous early cassettes and 7”s on Bruce Russell’s Xpressway label, as well as albums on labels such as Siltbreeze, Emperor Jones, Time Lag Feel Good All Over and Table Of The Elements. He has also recorded ten albums with Bruce Russell under the name A Handful of Dust. In 1999 he began a collaboration with Matt De Gennaro, where the two toured New Zealand Public Art Galleries converting them into giant soundboxes by stroking tensioned wires fixed to the buildings’ structural supports.
In 2002 he designed and built a glass-tube fire organ, during an arts residency in Wanganui.
In 2006, he released “Waves and Particles” a collaboration with his partner Maxine Funke (The Snares) and Mike Dooley (The Enemy, Toy Love) as The Hundred Dollar Band. There was also the release of Volume 2 of “Long Wires In Dark Museums”, and the reissue of his early albums “Morse/Gaudylight” and “Talisman” by U.S. label Table Of The Elements.
Later that year he was awarded an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award and released “Belsayer Time” a collaboration with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson.
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Mirrorwork
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Cry
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Talisman
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Morse/Gaudylight
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hljott wrote:
indie rock? wtf?
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Treason_is_bad wrote:
Ah, I get it... New Zealand's bird is the kiwi.
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ArboldeFuego wrote:
Desde Set Fire To Flames que no escuchaba una música tan asombrosa y enigmática... ésta nos recuerda o advierte que existe una dimensión desconocida, una senda salvaje paralela a la "realidad" que aparte de influir misteriosamente en nuestras vidas nos llama cada cierto tiempo para despojarnos de los ropajes de la civilización. Ahora bien, para mí este verdadero salto al abismo que propone su música queda mejor reflejado en su álbum Cry que en el más conocido Mirrorwork, ya que deja atrás la fragmentación sonora del segundo para privilegiar la composición de diminutas canciones profundamente místicas e instrospectivas. Éstas de verdad son soplos de vida para almas cansadas. Gracias Alastair desde las antípodas de la Tierra.
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Grindfucked wrote:
Mirrorwork sounds really good.
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fat_fleshy_fingers wrote:
mirrorwork is fantastic
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iluvtheclean wrote:
yeah, right on eutherian! Kim Hill from Radio New Zealand interviewed Alastair on the 11 November 2006 - brilliant interview; it's worth tracking down.
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eutherian wrote:
hurrah for Alastair getting the $50,000 NZ Laureate award!
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a handful of dust : PANEGYRIC
15 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/alastairgalbraithplagalgrindtherip
HI ALL!PANEGYRIC by A Handful Of Dust is OUT NOW!!!!I love this one I'd say it sits pretty prettily with CONCORD our very first effort!!Here's a review we received recently for the re-issue ofNOW GODS. …
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5 Aug 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/alastairgalbraithplagalgrindtherip
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